[Discuss] disk space analysis tools

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 10/07/2011 11:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org
> <mailto:gaf at gapps.blu.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I
>     have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to look
>     at disk space usage on the BLU servers. But, recently I'm seeing
>     significant increase in my work's backup server (a WD MyBook). While du
>     works fine (using the appropriate options), it does take some time to
>     analyze the results. One issue I have is whether the increase in space
>     is due to someone moving things around (such as in a client space) that
>     will break the hard links, but eventually the storage will go down as
>     the older dailies are removed. I only keep a few weeks because out New
>     York office backs us up also.
> 
>     So, what I am looking for is either some decent tools I can use that are
>     less time consuming than looking at du output.
> 
> 
> Have a look at Baobab.  Its a graphical disk space analyzer that works
> on local and remote disks.

On 10/07/2011 11:51 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Ever tried filelight? It's a pretty cool visualization of disk usage.
> There's a gnome-equivalent, I can't think of the name...

Thanks guys. I'll take a look at them and see if they work on the
MyBook, but I also could use it on out servers.

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